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Community Outreach Outlook for 2016
We made some headway last year. We did more clean ups and fine tuned our Target Shooter Information program. A fine group of volunteers! Thank you!!! Let's do it again! Only better!
I have a strong feeling that this year will be worse than ever. The simple fact that landfill dumping fees are costly, which will promote more dumping in the forests. Greater numbers of gun sales means more people want to shoot those new guns and most likely not want to wait in line for membership at the gun range. I think we will see a lot more people and trash in the woods this year.
Our target audience: illegal dumping and unaware target shooters...
We have a couple of options...
If we could pull off this kind of a blitz, I think we would see an overall greater respect for our great outdoors, a change in attitudes, hopefully less trash and a little more respect from the general public (not to mention the increased recognition and traffic to NWFA).
To find solutions to our challenge, we need to talk. Share ideas, thoughts, research and plans. We are people of sound minds and strong desires to preserve our public land for the enjoyment of our recreational shooting and hunting activities, as well as, for our future generations. If we don't step in and do something now, we make it real easy for others to continue their efforts in shutting us down.
Care to help with some of this?
Thanks,
Bill Cogley
Volunteer Coordinator
We made some headway last year. We did more clean ups and fine tuned our Target Shooter Information program. A fine group of volunteers! Thank you!!! Let's do it again! Only better!
I have a strong feeling that this year will be worse than ever. The simple fact that landfill dumping fees are costly, which will promote more dumping in the forests. Greater numbers of gun sales means more people want to shoot those new guns and most likely not want to wait in line for membership at the gun range. I think we will see a lot more people and trash in the woods this year.
Our target audience: illegal dumping and unaware target shooters...
- 1) Those who knowingly and deliberately dump their trash on public land.
- 2) Target shooters, who are unaware of the rules for shooting on public land, and those who just don't give a darn while they shoot up existing trash as targets and leave their own targets behind in the woods.
We have a couple of options...
- 1) Make a big difference with many of us getting involved and spreading the word all over.
- 2) Brush it off as just another same 'ol year where we do a little here and there but there's not much of a noticeable change.
If we could pull off this kind of a blitz, I think we would see an overall greater respect for our great outdoors, a change in attitudes, hopefully less trash and a little more respect from the general public (not to mention the increased recognition and traffic to NWFA).
To find solutions to our challenge, we need to talk. Share ideas, thoughts, research and plans. We are people of sound minds and strong desires to preserve our public land for the enjoyment of our recreational shooting and hunting activities, as well as, for our future generations. If we don't step in and do something now, we make it real easy for others to continue their efforts in shutting us down.
Care to help with some of this?
Thanks,
Bill Cogley
Volunteer Coordinator
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